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Medical image screening that explains itself using past cases
Chenyu Lian, Hong-Yu Zhou, Jing Qin
May 14, 2026
Most medical image screening models treat each case in isolation and rely on hard-to-interpret saliency maps generated after the fact. EviScreen retrieves relevant regions from a dual knowledge bank of historical cases, feeding that evidence directly into its prediction process rather than appending an explanation afterward. The result is both better performance — notably higher specificity at clinical-level recall on real-world screening benchmarks — and built-in localization interpretability via contrastive retrieval abnormality maps. Code is publicly available on GitHub, making this accessible to medical AI practitioners.
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